Kudos and a huge tip of the hat to the mayor and city council of Hagerstown for recently voting to give each of their full-time city employees a one-time bonus of $1,000.
After years of salary freezes, those city employees had previously taken 10 furlough days (a 3.8 percent decrease in salary) and had their workload increased through attrition (56 positions were left unfilled at a savings to taxpayers of $2.9 million).
Accordingly, this municipal action and grateful recognition of their dedicated public service of their employees simply was the right thing to do.
Larry D. Kump, Falling Waters, W. Va.
The writer is a West Virginia state delegate representing Berkeley and Morgan counties.